The Twenty-seventh CPSU Congress and the All-Union Conference of Social Science Department Heads (October 1986) posed the task of working steadfastly to overcome manifestations of stagnation, dogmatism, and utilitarianism in ideological and theoretical work and [to reverse] a certain lag of...

Lenin's expression regarding the revision of "our whole point of view on socialism" has almost become a byword, and there are many who apply it to the reorientation of modern Soviet society. Neither V.I. Lenin nor socialism is relevant here. Lenin suggested that the goal of socialism and the...